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Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of October 20, 1985

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LAST WISH
Betty Rollin

LAST WISH

by Betty Rollin · Linden/Simon & Schuster

4 wks on list

The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller--an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's decision to die--now in trade paperback with a new reader's guide inside

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GODDESS
Anthony Summers
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COMMON GROUND
J. Anthony Lukas
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COMMON GROUND

by J. Anthony Lukas · Knopf

4 wks on list

Describes events in the lives of three families during the 1968 Boston school integration crisis.

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DELOREAN
John Z. Delorean with Ted Schwarz

DELOREAN

by John Z. Delorean with Ted Schwarz · Zondervan

1 wks on list

The story of John De Lorean, former executive at General Motors and founder of the now defunct Delorean Motor Company, or DMC. Also describes his arrest and subsequent trial for cocaine posession.

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I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME
Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre

I NEVER PLAYED THE GAME

by Howard Cosell with Peter Bonventre · Morrow

1 wks on list

In a book as provocative as the author, Howard Cosell describes his thirty-three years in broadcasting. This is the story of his involvement and disillusionment with the world of spectator sports from football to boxing. Cosell pulls no punches in telling of his experiences with Monday Night Football, and readers will be fascinated by what he has to say about Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and O. J. Simpson, those members of the "Jockocracy", the sports broadcasters who once played the game. In his usual style, Cosell spares no one, not even himself. I Never Played the Game is an abrasive, enlightening, and entertaining book of scope and conviction. You don't have to be a sports fan to love it!

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HAMMER OF THE GODS: The Led Zeppelin Saga
Stephen Davis
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HAMMER OF THE GODS: The Led Zeppelin Saga

by Stephen Davis · Morrow

10 wks on list

"One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written." -Chicago Tribune Originally published in 1985, and last updated in 2008, Hammer of the Gods is considered the ultimate word on Led Zeppelin, and a definitive rock and roll classic that sets the bar for what such books could and should be. Dey Street is proud to have such a category defining title on its backlist, a book that captures the first heavy metal monsters in all their excessive glory. Led Zeppelin fully embody the "sex, drugs and rock and roll" ethos--all captured here in glorious detail. With 20% new material from bestselling biographer Stephen Davis, this edition of Hammer of the Gods is set to captivate a new generation of music fans, Zeppelin fans, and a new generation of readers.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.